KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Ministry and the Human Resources Ministry have agreed to a proposal by Construction Labor Exchange Bhd to enable the agency to fully manage the entry of foreign construction workers involving more than 100 individuals.

"This is in line with Act 520, such as ensuring employees have a CIDB Construction Personnel Card and a Construction Skills Competency Certificate," he said after the seventh Joint Committee Meeting of the Home Minister and the Human Resources Minister on the management of foreign workers.

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He said the meeting also agreed to consider applications for short-term permits for foreign workers to carry out infrastructure construction works and works in prohibited areas and places.

"In the past, we did not allow foreign workers in these areas, but in the short term, there are special projects for us to get them from outside to help with the work.

"Today, we have allowed it with certain standard operating procedures that we will issue," he said in a special joint press conference with the Human Resources Ministry in Bukit Aman, here, Monday (July 18).

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Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan was also present.

Hamzah said the meeting also agreed that any application for foreign workers in prohibited areas and places in the future would be decided by the Home Ministry. - Bernama